Fine Art Floral & Beautiful Friendship Birthday Card

Last week Stampin' Up! released the list of retiring products from the annual catalogue. Among those products was one of my favorite stamp sets - Beautiful Friendship. I wanted to play around and use up some of the products I have that will be retiring if not now in a few months. So I dug out the Fine Art Floral DSP and the Forever Gold Laser Cut Specialty DSP and created this birthday card.

Supplies

1 - 8 1/2"x11" sheet of Balmy Blue cardstock

1 - 5 1/4"x4" piece of Bermuda Bay cardstock

1 - 3 1/4'x2 1/2" piece of Fine Art Floral DSP

1 - 1 7/8"x1 1/2" piece of Basic White cardstock

1 - piece of Forever Gold Laser Cut Specialty DSP

Beautiful Friendship stamp set

Memento Black ink

Forever Greenery Trim

 

Instructions

Take the 8 1/2"x11" sheet of Balmy Blue cardstock cut it down to 8 1/2"x5 1/2" and score that at 4 1/4" on the long side. I then adhered the piece of Bermuda Bay to the card front.

I then took my small piece of Basic White cardstock and with the birthday sentiment from Beautiful Friendship and Memento Black ink I stamped the sentiment in the center of the cardstock.

I then adhered the Gold Foil DSP to the front of the card lining it up about 1/8" from the left edge of the Bermuda Bay cardstock. The easiest way to adhere the laser cut paper would be to use the Tombow liquid adhesive but you can use whatever you have.

I then adhered the DSP to the front of the card again leaving about an 1/8" of border this time on the right side. I then used Stampin' Dimensionals to adhere the ribbon and sentiment to the front of the card.

Step It Up

If you want more DSP on your card you can switch the Bermuda Bay and DSP layers.

Another way to step up this card is rather than just using a simple square or rectangle for your sentiment look through your collection of punches and dies to see if there is a label that you would like more.

Let me know in the comments below, what do you think of this card?

Happy Paper Crafting! 

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